The Luminaries
A Novel
New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First United States edition.
Description: 834 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way. Moody finds himself drawn into a series of unsolved crimes and complex mysteries.
Subjects:
Immigrants -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
Criminal investigation -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876 -- Fiction.
New Zealand -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
Criminal investigation -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
Prostitutes -- Fiction.
Trials (Murder) -- New Zealand -- Fiction.
New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876 -- Fiction.
New Zealand -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780316074315
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Catton | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | Out (Due: 5/18/2024) |
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"Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Books, August 2013."--Verso of title page.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2013.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2013.